Paraguay

• Monday, August 1st 2022 - 21:07 UTC

  Paraguay has only 83 park rangers; it needs 5,000

  

  Paraguayan authorities have admitted they only had 83 properly trained park rangers to guard some 2.4 million protected hectares, way below international standards of one for every 500 hectares.

• Monday, August 1st 2022 - 08:23 UTC

  Paraguayan President pledges to up intelligence funding

  

  Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez last week announced he would up funding for the National Intelligence Secretariat (SNI), an agency created in 2018. Abdo justified his move on the body's precarious budget, due to which it relies on foreign cooperation to fulfill its mission.

• Thursday, July 28th 2022 - 09:15 UTC

  UNWTO helping to promote tourism as a pillar of Paraguay's economic development

  

  Paraguayan president Mario Abdo Benitez during the Renewable Energy and Sustainable Tourism event, welcomed this week UNWTO’s support as the county works to make tourism a central pillar of economic growth, social opportunity and jobs.

• Wednesday, July 27th 2022 - 07:34 UTC

  Uruguay will seek to join Trans-Pacific Partnership; Lacalle announces

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Tuesday announced his administration would seek to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in its current form and that, to that end, he will seek endorsement from all political parties.

• Monday, July 25th 2022 - 10:08 UTC

  Downspout threatens Paraguay's foreign trade yet again

  

  Paraguayan exporters have decried over this weekend their latent concern about the Paraguay and Parana rivers' low levels which might affect the grain season in January and February if no improvement is recorded, it was reported in Asunción.

• Saturday, July 23rd 2022 - 10:33 UTC

  Brazil and Paraguay team up against trans-border crime

  

  Authorities from Brazil and Paraguay have launched Operation Ágata and Operation Basalto in a coordinated manner to tackle cross-border organized crime, it was reported this week.

• Saturday, July 23rd 2022 - 10:30 UTC

  Former Paraguayan President Cartés “highly corrupt” for US State Dept.

  

  Former Paraguayan President Horacio Cartés (2013-2018) has been added to the US State Department's “black” list of “highly corrupt” individuals, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said Friday in a statement.

• Wednesday, July 20th 2022 - 10:50 UTC

  Rio Grande port in south Brazil plans to increase export shipments from Uruguay and Paraguay

  

  The Port of Rio Grande in the Brazilian southernmost state of Rio Grande do sul, will have continuous dredging of its access channel. The decision follows strong long-standing demand from operators and the fact that the main maritime port terminal in the state of Rio Grande do Sul also has close links with the three other Mercosur member countries, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay.

• Wednesday, July 20th 2022 - 10:31 UTC

  Paraguay among leading countries in renewable electricity generation

  

  Paraguay and Costa Rica were among the world's leading countries generating electricity from renewable sources, according to a report by the Latin American Energy Organization (Olade) published Tuesday.

• Monday, July 18th 2022 - 08:33 UTC

  Brazilian businessmen eye Paraguayan move to escape inflation

  

  Businessmen in inflation-torn Brazil are eyeing Paraguay's stabler economy as a suitable destination for future investments, it was reported Sunday in Asunción.